And the end result, is, indeed, that she's simply not capable even of accepting that some people who read what she writes won't like it.
I'm going to argue that one. I don't think she's done this before -- and lord knows there are people who probably know what underwear she's got on today, so if she had, it would have propagated, in much the same way this has.
There are a lot of people who can't stand her Vampires or her books.
I've been talking to other people about this, and I'm almost getting the feeling that maybe 1 in 5 read the reviews that she's responding to. Given the timing, you don't have to go that far back; even read the previous sixty to her comment, and you'll understand that it's not that they don't like it that seems to have pushed her buttons; there are certainly less than glowing reviews of all her other books.
I'm really guessing it was the person who said her dead husband was probably the real writer that tipped her over the scales (and way, way off, and I'd even bet my own money on it, as opposed to, say anyone else's); but then again, since she was going to do it anyway, why not also answer every other sweeping dismissal?
So either this book was somehow very special or important to her, or something -- because as I said, she's got a lot of negative reviews lying around the rests of amazon and she's never responded like this.
I don't know her; I've never met her; I'm not actually trying to defend her -- although I'm beginning to think that it's a twitch on my part.
I do understand the frustration with the lack of being edited, though, because I think it did make a difference.
But you know what? Colleen McCullough hated what she had to do to THORN BIRDS to sell that book -- and it's by far the biggest hit she ever had. I remember 6 months after it came out it was still outselling front-list new releases in the chain I worked at at the time; we were crating them in in 50's. Well, okay, 48's.
Still, she hated and loathed what she'd been forced to do editorially, and she never allowed that level of interference again.
Sometimes what we want to do as writers and what connects well with readers isn't the same thing :/. I'm not sure it's a waste of talent, per se in the case of Anne Rice; she seems to write so much from where she is in the moment that there would almost have to be changes because she's thirty+ years older than she was when she wrote Interview.
Ummm, and no, of course I don't mind -- I confess I don't immediately recognize ide_cyan though, which is probably because I have no memory and few brain cells.
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:42 am (UTC)I'm going to argue that one. I don't think she's done this before -- and lord knows there are people who probably know what underwear she's got on today, so if she had, it would have propagated, in much the same way this has.
There are a lot of people who can't stand her Vampires or her books.
I've been talking to other people about this, and I'm almost getting the feeling that maybe 1 in 5 read the reviews that she's responding to. Given the timing, you don't have to go that far back; even read the previous sixty to her comment, and you'll understand that it's not that they don't like it that seems to have pushed her buttons; there are certainly less than glowing reviews of all her other books.
I'm really guessing it was the person who said her dead husband was probably the real writer that tipped her over the scales (and way, way off, and I'd even bet my own money on it, as opposed to, say anyone else's); but then again, since she was going to do it anyway, why not also answer every other sweeping dismissal?
So either this book was somehow very special or important to her, or something -- because as I said, she's got a lot of negative reviews lying around the rests of amazon and she's never responded like this.
I don't know her; I've never met her; I'm not actually trying to defend her -- although I'm beginning to think that it's a twitch on my part.
I do understand the frustration with the lack of being edited, though, because I think it did make a difference.
But you know what? Colleen McCullough hated what she had to do to THORN BIRDS to sell that book -- and it's by far the biggest hit she ever had. I remember 6 months after it came out it was still outselling front-list new releases in the chain I worked at at the time; we were crating them in in 50's. Well, okay, 48's.
Still, she hated and loathed what she'd been forced to do editorially, and she never allowed that level of interference again.
Sometimes what we want to do as writers and what connects well with readers isn't the same thing :/. I'm not sure it's a waste of talent, per se in the case of Anne Rice; she seems to write so much from where she is in the moment that there would almost have to be changes because she's thirty+ years older than she was when she wrote Interview.
Ummm, and no, of course I don't mind -- I confess I don't immediately recognize